INTERESTING FROM ARKANSAS.

Published: October 20, 1861

Correspondence of the Missouri Democrat.

ROLLA, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1851.

My informant is well posted in regard to the situation of affairs in Arkansas, and his story is mostly a repetition of a twice-told tale. Proscription of suspected Union men was common, and outrages were being committed against life and property. Since the troubles commenced it was estimated that over 300 persons had been hung or shot in the State for the manifestation of Union sentiments. In Indpendence County alone five persons have been hung and shot. The merchants are the most ultra Secessionists, one of the secret springs of action among this class being the heavy indebtedness owing to Eastern creditors. Some men of Northern origin were the most rabid. A "blow-hard," named JAMES PATTERSON, of Augusta, Jackson County, was originally from Pennsylvania. He stumped the county and was elected to the Convention, and cast his vote for secession. He was made a Captain some two months ago, and marched some two hundred and fifty miles north to make, an attack on Rolla. When within eight miles of this place his courage gave out, and his Lieutenant, SHUTTLEWORTH, approached within a mile and raised a Secession flag. He was chased back by a squad of cavalry, a circumstance well remembered here as occurring at the time, and fully corroborating the statement.

Arkansas has about thirteen regiments of twelve months men in the Confederate service. All the pav the troops have received has been in Arkansas War Bonds, and a good deal of murmuring was heard among the soldiers, owing to the worthlessness of this currency, some writing home that they could not even purchase a chicken with a hat-full of the bonds. Three regiments, for three years service, were called upon to rendezvous at Balesville and Clarksville. The call had been cut a month, and not a man had enlisted yet. A call was made by the military authorities for all the arms in the possession of the citizens of Jackson County; about 450 guns, of all shapes, were brought in, and were cut out and reconstructed for the [???] ball.

Groceries were very scarce and high; coffee was selling at fifty cents a pound, and salt from four to six dollars per sack. Sugar dear. The cotton crop was damaged considerably by the wet weather during the latter part of August and fore part of September, causing the planters to look down-spirited. The corn crop was very fine. Hopes were entertained by many of the planters that England would not recognize the blocka e, but as this now seemed improbable, some of the most politic were hinting about a reconstruction of the Union, and talking about its advantages when compared with the present deplorable state of things.

Jackson and Independence Counties had each a company of cavalry at the battle of Wilson's Creek. The wild enthusiasm in which the first exaggerated accounts were received, had been greatly modified by the receipt of more accurate information. The people were dissatisfied with the manner in which the battle was managed by MCCULLOCH. It was said that all the orders he gave during the day, was "Give them hell, boys!"